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drjan2005.bsky.social @drjan2005.bsky.social · 2h

Is there any way for airports to not show this?

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 7h

What fucking country is this?!

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drjan2005.bsky.social @drjan2005.bsky.social · 2h

Will the House ever be back in session then?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 9h

nothing says america first like putting qatari fighter jets in the rocky mountains

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 15h

📣The Freedom Frogs are multiplying‼️

This is the way Portland 🫡❤️🐸
Video @oregonian.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes.

Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes.

Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days.

This is a fascist regime.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

The White House released a memo from Trump's physician summarizing his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center earlier in the day, which included a Covid vaccine booster and a flu shot.

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second check-up of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

nbcnews.to

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 8h

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's politica...

www.pbs.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

😕🇺🇸

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Lindsey Halligan entered this as “AUSA” — presumably because no Assistant US Attorney will go along with this.

The form is unsigned and undated.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

I think Halligan is failing to give all the info. Which is why Comey has said he’s filing a motion to dismiss on abuse of the grand jury process. I’m guessing though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

i know grand juries have a relatively low bar for bringing indictments but i find myself wondering WTF is up with some of these grand jurors

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else HORRIFIED that a MAGA is going to own our voting machines?

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Trump hates Comey. He hates Letitia James more. She’s black. This strong black woman make an ass out of Trump.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone else curious about the dead silence from the FBI about the Kirk thing?

The guy they have in custody is likely not the shooter, and everything the FBI told us to date about it was complete bullshit.

So what’s really going on? All that initial hysteria, and now total silence?

Weird

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market)

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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Baby Zombie @mightymykey1.bsky.social · 1d

How many more banana breads have to die, before we have peace in our time?

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market)

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

youtube.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

More on the destruction of the presumption of regularity

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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